David L. Kasten is an accomplished strategist and intelligence expert on Smart Cities and Government Tech Intelligence and the new guest of this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Podcast Series.

A former CIA member, David L. Kasten is an executive leader and manager with a comprehensive background leading strategic planning, operations, analysis, risk management and program implementation. David is the President and CEO of Poolbeg Group LLC with the ability to quickly identify issues, develop solutions, and build motivated, top performing teams to enhance operations and achieve objectives. Current TS/SCI with CI Poly, practiced in Arabic and German. David is now doing a PHD research on securities studies, intelligence smart cities in King's College London.

David L. Kasten Questions

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
2. How do you bridge the gap between the high profile military intelligence and the research academic?
3. Can you elaborate on your academic research that built into the present PHD in King's College in history of military, tech, intelligence and ultimately now security data and all related areas?
4. We have been changed by tech and society and in the last years tech has been increasingly changing everything we do as individuals, organisations, businesses, countries. How do you see these shifts and challenges both for intelligence, security and society?
5. Your career is very stressful and comprehends a lot of intense moments that bridge values between success and failure. What Careers highlight the main successes and failures of such a complex career?
6. Can you tell us about your company, where you are the President and CEO of Poolbeg Group LLC?
7. How do you see intelligence and security special in a time of cybersecurity and digital transformation?
8. How do you see AI and human engineering in the military conduct of warfare?
9. One question is how can we manage ethics when the complexity of tech and AI is moving to singularity and the challenges, risks and the desperate actions that can potentially arise on that?
10. You have been very interested in smart cities and related tech and funding. Can you tell us about smart cities and the cities as ecosystems?

David L. Kasten Biography

Mr. David Kasten is the Co-Founder, President, and CEO of Poolbeg Group LLC, a strategy consulting firm headquartered in Lawrence, Kansas, with clients in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. The Poolbeg Group focuses on delivering analytical tools to help leaders manage risk to meet strategic goals. These tools are born from a wide-ranging background
leading strategic planning, operations, analysis, risk management, and program implementation in some of the world's most demanding environments.

Dave is an accomplished executive-level leader and manager with a comprehensive background spanning 30 years of leading strategic planning, operations, analysis, and program implementation during his time in the U.S. Department of State, Central Intelligence Agency, and the U.S. Department of Defense. During his career as a U.S. Government Civilian, he has been appointed to elite leadership positions managing sensitive national security matters at the strategic level in a joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational national security Community.

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